classwork

Jan. 26

introduction

Jan. 28

Kress, Introduction: the grammar of visual design

Feb. 2

Kress, Chapter 1: The semiotic landscape: language and visual communication
(note - this slide show also covers the introduction & Chapter 2)
semiotics vs. grammar

Feb 4,

Kress, Chapter 2: Narrative representation: designing social actions

Feb 9

Kress, Chapter 3: Conceptual representations: designing social constructs

Feb. 11

Kress, Chapter 4: Representation and interaction: designing the position of the viewer

Feb. 16

Kress, Chap 5: Modality: designing models of reality

Feb. 18 - 23

Review Kress, Ch. 1-5

Feb. 25

Intro to Thorton, Art World

• 3 part history of painting

Feb. 28

Reading Images paper due

March 2, 4

Thornton, Art World: The Auction

• Painting and Experience in Fifteenth-Century Italy
• Marx- The Fetishism of Commodities and the Secret thereof
• 'What Do Pictures "Really" Want?', W. J. T. Mitchell
• Visual Culture Questionnaire

March 9, 11

Thornton, Art World: The Crit

• "Welcome to the Cultural Revolution," Rosalind Krauss
• Rosalind Krauss, Wikipedia
• subjects of desire
• Greenberg's "Avant Garde and Kitsch"
• modernism (art)
• Michael Fried

March 16, 18

Spring Break

March 23, 25

Thornton, Art World: The Fair
Francis Stark
Murakami - 727-727
Sophie Calle - Room with a View
Hirst - the shark

• Debord, The Society of the Spectacle
• art installation proposal due, March 23
• "Rescuing Art from 'Visual Culture Studies'" Michelle Marder Kamhi
• exemplary art slide show
• Great Art: Top 50 posters slide show>

March 30, April 1

Thornton, Art World: The Prize

• What Art Is and Where it Belongs, Paul Chan
• The Uncanny, Freud
• Approaching Abjection, Julia Kristeva
• Abjection/abjectivism : post-humanist uses of abjection Allan Lloyd-Smith

April 6, 8

Thornton, Art World: The Magazine

April 13, 15

Thornton, Art World: The Studio Visit

• art installation due, April 13

April 20, 22

Thornton, Art World: The Magazine

April 27, 29

Thornton, Art World: The Studio Visit

May 4, 6

Thornton, Art World: The Biennale

• Final installation proposal due - May 4

May 11

last day of class

May 17

final exam 10:15 -12:15

• Final installation due